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Wednesday, 16 November 2016Garden science Flowers attract birds and bees to your garden, but some colours are more likely than others to appeal to bees than birds and vice versa. We take a look at your garden through the eyes of these two creatures.Subjects: animals, botany, birds, invertebrates-insects-and-arachnids, askanexpert

Tuesday, 20 September 2016Goner gums It may be harder to spot a mountain ash in parts of Australia's mountains or some species of mallee trees in the outback within 60 years as climate change causes the range of many species of eucalypts to shrink or even disappear entirely, new research suggests.Subjects: climate-change, botany, news

Tuesday, 7 June 2016 18
commentsGreat Moments in Science There may be a whole range of reasons why it's not good to water plants in the middle of the day, but is burning the plant's leaves one of them? Dr Karl investigates the physics of plants and water.Subjects: botany, physics, greatmomentsinscience, drkarl, podcast

Tuesday, 10 May 2016Carrot colour The humble supermarket carrot owes its deep orange colour to a newly-found gene, according to an analysis of the full carrot genome.Subjects: agricultural-crops, botany, genetics, news

Tuesday, 15 March 2016Enigmatic patterns The chance discovery of 'fairy circles' in Western Australia's Pilbara region is providing new insight into one of nature's enduring puzzles.Subjects: botany, ecology, news

Monday, 7 March 2016Ask an expert Autumn is synonymous with falling leaves in the northern hemisphere, but Australia only has a handful of native deciduous trees. Is it too hot for deciduous trees to have evolved, or is there another reason?Subjects: science-and-technology, botany, evolution, askanexpert

Thursday, 18 February 2016Climate sensitivity The plant life of Australia's outback does not respond to sudden increases in rainfall because it has "learned" that drought will soon follow, according to satellite-based maps tracking the impact of changing climatic conditions.Subjects: climate-change, botany, news

Tuesday, 16 February 2016Precious petal The discovery of a new species of ancient flower beautifully preserved in amber indicates that ancestors of today's daisies, mints and tomatoes flourished in Caribbean jungles up to 45 million years ago.Subjects: botany, fossils, news

Wednesday, 9 December 2015Forest fruits Australian rainforest trees with large fleshy fruits are rare because few animals are capable of dispersing them, a new study suggests.Subjects: conservation, rain-forests-and-forest, botany, news

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